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“Semi-quantitative measures of microbial concentration did not reliably differentiate between illness and asymptomatic colonization, suggesting that clinical symptoms may not always be directly related to microbial load for common respiratory infections.”

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References

  1. C.C. Tam, V. Offeddu, K.B. Anderson, A.L. Weg, L.R. Macareo, D.W. Ellison, R. Rangsin, S. Fernandez, R.V. Gibbons, I. Yoon, and S. Simasathien, "Association between semi-quantitative microbial load and respiratory symptoms among Thai military recruits: a prospective cohort study", BMC Infectious Diseases, vol. 18, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-018-3358-4